RANGER ACTIVITIES DIVISION
                           MORNING REPORT

Attention: Directorate
           Regional and Park Chief Rangers, USPP, BIFC, FLETC
           Ranger Activities Division Information Network

Day/Date:  Friday, April 10, 1992

INCIDENTS

92-113 - Chaco Culture (New Mexico) - ARPA Investigation

Backcountry ranger Eric Beckert came upon S.A.M. and S.R.C.
in a closed area of the park's backcountry on the morning of April
7th.  Beckert was searching the area for visitors after finding an
unattended vehicle nearby.  After questioning the pair, Beckert received
permission to go through one woman's day pack and discovered two large
pottery sherds which apparently were taken from the park.  At that point,
the other woman volunteered that she had the remainder of the pot wrapped in
her sweatshirt.  Park archeologist Dabney Ford and chief ranger Herschel
Schulz were called in to assist in the investigation.  Both women were cited
for entering a closed area and walking on a cultural site.  Felony ARPA
charges may be lodged pending further investigation.  [CompuServe message
from Bonnie Winslow, RAD/SWRO, 4/9]

92-114 - Big Bend (Texas) - Drug Arrests

On the evening of April 3rd, Border Patrol agent Dannie Burns and rangers
Fred Moosman, Dave Evans and Kathy Hambley searched a vehicle which Burns
had stopped at the Boquillas Crossing and discovered 112 pounds of marijuana
packaged in two 50-pound flour sacks.  The two female occupants of the
vehicle, R.E. and M.G., one a former NPS employee, had
been hiding in Boquillas, Mexico, since last December.  The pair had fled
the United States after Texas DPS officers conducted an undercover drug
sting in a community on the west border of the park.  Burns is one of the
two Border Patrol agents who reside in the park.  [Roger Moder, BIBE, via
CompuServe message from Bonnie Winslow, RAD/SWRO, 4/9]

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

No field reports today.

STAFF STATUS

Division Chief: Brady at PNR chief rangers' conference, Seattle, WA (4/8-4/10).

Branch of Resource and Visitor Protection: Coffey and Sisto at MAR special
park uses course, Philadelphia, PA (4/7-4/9).

Branch of Fire and Aviation: Norum and Gale on site visit to Canaveral, Gulf
Island and SICC (4/5-4/10); Broyles coordinating NPS/BLM video on fire
management in the NPS, Big Cypress and Everglades (4/6-4/10); Mattingly
attending to administrative matters for Alpine IHC, Hot Springs, SD, and at
RM area FMO meeting, Riverton, WY (4/6-4/8); Clark representing NPS at
prescribed burn for FWS, Bend, OR (4/8-4/10).

Prepared by WASO Division of Ranger Activities

Telephone:  Branch of R&VP - FTS 268-4874/6039 or 202-208-4874/6039
            Branch of F&A (WASO) - FTS 268-5572/5573 or 202-208-5572/5573

Telefax:    Branch of R&VP - FTS 268-6756 or 202-208-6756
            Branch of F&A (WASO) - FTS 268-5977 or 202-208-5977

CompuServe: Branch of R&VP - WASO-RANGER
            Branch of F&A (WASO) - WASO-FIRE-WO

SEAdog:     Branch of R&VP - 1/650
            Branch of F&A (WASO) - 1/655